Gallowmere1984 Member

I love lifting more than a person could love their child; this especially applies to deadlifts.

Errr dude, pretty much everyone involved in oncology agrees that cancer is a genetics/epigenetics problem.

Exactly this. We all have known plenty of people who made it into their 80s and 90s while choking down Lucky Strike and Camel unfiltered for seven decades, with nary the first glimpse of cancer. That doesn't make it a good idea. ETA: amusingly, there are precisely ZERO studies showing smoking as a direct cause of any of…

Care to expand a bit? I could drop the bar on my head during BTNPPs and end up in the ER. That doesn't mean that I was overtrained; just happened to miss the groove on the drop. I could fall out while training during a weight cut. That doesn't mean that I was overtrained; I just allowed my dehydration to get a bit over the…

I'd start here: https://diabeticmuscleandfitness.com/ It's run by Phil Graham, a bodybuilder with T1D, and has a fair amount of free content, as well as being a source for his book on the subjects. ETA: https://sigmanutrition.com/episode159/ a podcast episode of SNR featuring Phil.

Fixed that for you.

In general, I'd agree. However, some people just intentionally put giant neon 'Kick Me' signs on themselves, so the whole movement can scream victim when someone inevitably obliges. Tess Holliday is a shining example.

I really like how his reviews are very PL specific, and are more up to date. A lot of the older programs completely neglected autoregulation, as it wasn't really considered a mainstream thing to think about, until the past few years.

I think I've found the problem: needing external validation.

Standing cable crunches burn like hell, and seem to work fine. I still prefer than ab wheel with a weight vest though.

To add to this, it's also a good idea for one to use a belt regularly, if they do plan on using it. In the few times that I threw one on, it made stuff feel all kinds of wonky, because I wasn't used to it being there. I still currently train beltless, but only because I don't own one. Once I order my kit for my meet in…

This is the thing, and has been my experience as well. It isn't that carbs are anabolic (though they are anti-catabolic), it's that you are going to be able to train harder with them in the mix. Given that training stimulus is the most important factor that's actually within your control (can't change genetics, etc.), why…

I know them feels. She also goes to shows with me whenever our schedules line up. Last one was saw was Tesseract, The Contortionist, Erra, and Skyharbor about a year and a half ago. I was really hoping to be able to get her to the Katatonia show here a couple of months ago, but shows during the weekdays are nearly…

Depends upon my training schedule and volume. I vary anywhere between 53 (after lower volume bench or overhead days) and 74 (after higher volume deadlift days).

I've also seen world class pullers who practically stare at their toes through their entire pull, with a heavily rounded upper back. That was my point about everything except for the lumbar spine being variable.

Deadlifts and squats are something that vary a lot more than most people seem to want to admit. Really, the only hard and fast rule is to keep your lumbar spine from rounding. Anything else, it's more about playing with your leverages to find what works for you.

Ewww. My girlfriend doesn't lift either, but she's been incredibly supportive of my insane focus on self-improvement. I think she might be warming up to it more though, because she wants us to watch the IPF Worlds open for her weightclass (Inda's class) with me tomorrow, even though it won't be live. She has no idea how it…

Not bad at all, especially considering that it's only a single-ply suit. Still geared, but nowhere near the damned rubber band forklifts that are being engineered these days.

Yeah, Marisa Inda is a beast. She actually had a pretty bad squat day, but ended up winning the IPF World gold medals for deadlift and total, because Joy Nmera was overconfident and went for the world record deadlift on her second attempt and missed.

As weird as it will sound, I probably would have failed it if I'd have tried last week. I've been obsessively watching the IPF Worlds, and keeping an eye on form breakdowns that cause people to fail lifts has helped me a lot. The whole eyes forward, chest up, force elbows to stay tight did a lot to allow me to grind it out…

To be fair, there aren't likely many people here who have any business comparing themselves to a world class athlete, let alone the IPF world champion in his division and weight class. ;)

Since bodyweight leveled back off from the sodium loading, I'm back at 0.18 lbs./week gained at 2950/3450 kcals on recovery and training days, respectively. Sitting around 173 lbs., and hit my first triple for 300 on squats yesterday. I don't know what possessed me to go for the third when I had only programmed a double. I…

Yes, it's absolutely normal for the level of soreness to pretty rapidly dissipate. The repeated bout effect sets in faster for some than others. Essentially, the more you do a particular movement pattern in a similar rep range, even with higher loading, the less muscle damage you will incur. The first couple of weeks are…

My first guess would be the improve insulin sensitivity and nutrient partitioning that comes with anaerobic training, though I could be off.

I tend to hit between 70-120 per day, depending upon my veggie selection. No digestion issues, other than the standard broccoli farts.

This is exactly what I was thinking. Once you get the hang of the clean, I'm pretty sure that you'll likely be able to blast up just as much weight as you can realistically front squat. After that, if you learn to jerk, you could always then drop the bar onto your shoulders, behind the neck push press style. ETA: you could…

This chicken and peanut butter thing...it sounds partially awful, but also incredibly interesting. I may have to try this at some point.

A protein shake and 350g of blueberries an hour before, then another shake and 420g of cherries after. I can't be bothered to carry a shaker bottle around the gym, so I just hit the water fountain between lifts. If roughly 760 kcals around my session isn't enough, I'm probably screwing off too much.

Nevermind. Edited to remove duplicate cast.

5/3/1 can work fine, but with it's progression scheme, it's more of a long term thing. That said, if you pick up the new book 5/3/1 Forever, you'll have literally thousands of potential template combinations to play with over the years. IMO, the original 5/3/1 is pretty dated and terrible.